Guinea Pigs Go to Court: Epidemiology and Class Actions in Taiwan. Jobin, P. & Tseng, Y. In Boudia, S. & Jas, N., editors, Powerless Science?, of Science and Politics in a Toxic World, pages 170–192. Berghahn Books, 1 edition, 2014.
Paper abstract bibtex This chapter describes the first two major cases of industrial diseases brought to justice in Taiwan, with the support of an original citizen mobilization and a network of lawyers. The first case was brought in the north of the island near Taipei. The 450 plaintiffs had been exposed to a wide range of organic solvents like trichloroethylene and other toxins while they were working for the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), a U.S. manufacturer of television sets. More than a thousand people identified with this case have developed various sorts of cancer. The second case was brought near Tainan, in
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